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TIL in Brazil, prison sentence is reduced by 4 days for every book read.

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XEeX6 TIL the idiom "When my ship comes in" originated with sailors' wives who promised to pay off debts when the sailors' ships returned to port.
v1PQ8 TIL that the Soviets secretly bought clear Coca-Cola from the US and disguised it as vodka
OGZwX TIL: that the Atomium landmark in Belgium is modeled after an iron crystal magnified 165 million times
DQvXJ TIL A French Socialite Named Blanche Monnier Was Imprisoned by Her Family in a Secret Room for 25 Years, From 1876 to 1901. According to officials, Monnier had not seen any sunlight for her entire captivity.
bGAp TIL in 1906 the Bronx Zoo exhibited a Congolese pygmy man named Ota Benga in its Monkey House where he slept in a hammock and shot a bow and arrow at a target. Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of his suicide.